[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Does camera in N800 support X11 Xv extension?

[From: Komal Shah]

On 2/5/07, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> hi tim,
>
> Tim Teulings wrote:
> > Hallo!
> >
> > Subject says it all:
> >
> > Does the camera in the N800 support the X11 Xv extension, that mean can
> > I use this extension for displaying images of the camera or must I use
> > v4l V2 (what about the V1 interface) or gstreamer?
>
> v4l (1) is deprecated. Thus we only support v4l2. The v42lsrc gstreamer element
> is included, but also directly accessing v4l2 woiuld work.
>

As Stephen said, you can directly pickup some of the test application
for v4l2 to capture the video. Like this

http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/linux-omap-open-source/2006-March/006666.html
http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/linux-omap-open-source/2006-March/006653.html

I hope it will work. OR else try cross-compiling xawtv...OR I believe
you should also be able to test it with mplayer.

-- 
---Komal Shah
http://komalshah.blogspot.com